1. Director's Cut w/ original Jerry Goldsmith score. This is good stuff. It's about 25 minutes longer than the version released here in the US. Though there are a few complaints ... mainly just in the ending. The ending was apparently re-shot for the US release, and to be quite honest, I feel the US ending is a much better one. And Lily sings. A lot. The same song. This was cut out of the US release, and I can't say as I disagree with that decision ... except for one scene. When Jack takes Lily to see the Unicorns, the US version is severely chopped up, but this one is actually a very beautiful piece of film, and the song she sings is appropriate for the scene. Very well done that after seeing it in it's full glory, the US version pales in comparison.

The perfect cut of the film would be a combination of the director's cut, and the US release. Either score works for the movie.

Grade: A+

2. Audio Commentary with Ridley Scott. This is like any other good director commentary. Some interesting insight into the filming process, some quips, troubles and hardships. All in all, a very well done commentary.

Grade: A+

3. U.S. Theatrical Version w/ Tangerine Dream score. This is the Legend we all know and love. I've been waiting for this movie to hit DVD for a long time. Just a direct transfer to DVD would have sufficed for me ... but the addition of the original cut, and the original score ... one couldn't ask for more from this collection.

Grade: A+

4. Creating A Myth: The Making of Legend. On the DVD, this is actually titled Creating A Myth: Memories of Legend. Not sure why there's a discrepancy in the titles, but the DVD title is more accurate. This wasn't a behind the scenes "making of" featurette, this was the actors, and crew, today ... talking about their experiences of 17 years ago. Overall, it's a good feature, there's a lot of interesting information. For example ... Mia Sara was only 15 when doing this movie. Sweet Jesus! I would have sworn she was 20. And this guy played Meg Mucklebones, the swamp troll. There's no picture, but he's the guy who played the holographic doctor in Star Trek. You really have to hand it to the make-up artists for this movie. They did an absolutely incredible job transforming the actors into these creatures of fantasy.

Grade: A

5. Isolated Score by Tangerine Dream. This is what it says it is. This is the score of the film played uncut, uncued, over the movie. No other audio is heard.

Grade: A

6. Lost Scenes: "Alternate Opening: Four Goblins" & a Re-creation of "The Faerie Dance using rare photos, storyboards, and original music. This was ok. The alternate opening was somewhat lacking. It's pretty rough footage, and as there's no audio other than when the actors are speaking, there's some long pauses where there's no sound ... and then there's a rush of wind and rustling leaves as the actors start to speak. It was neat to see the alternate opening, but I can see why it wasn't used in the final film. The recreated Faerie Dance is a storyboard sequence, with the audio playing behind it. The original scene, when cut from the film, was thrown away, but the audio was preserved. Had the video accompanied the audio, this would have been a much better bonus feature.

Grade: B

7. Storyboards: Lily & The Unicorns, Jacks Challenge, and Downfall of Darkness. I've seen better. The storyboards, while interesting to look at, aren't very interesting to watch more than once. There's no audio accompanying them, just a series of still pictures. The recreation of the Faerie dance at least had the accompanying audio.

Grade: C

8. Brian Ferry's "Is Your Love Strong Enough" music video. Cheesy. But what do you expect from a mid '80's music video? Makes good use of some of the sets, and some of the footage from the movie ... but the dude is not a handsome man, and he takes every opportunity to be on camera. It's pretty standard '80's music video fare ... nothing spectacular.

Grade: C

9. Photo Galleries: Publicity Photographs, Images of Legend, Continuity Polaroid's. A fairly large collection of photos taken. The publicity ones speak for themselves. Standard promotional fare. The Images of Legend are pictures taken during filming. They almost seem like screen captures of various scenes in the movie. And the Continuity Polaroid's ... there's a crapload of them. They are what they are. No audio, just still images. Not a bad feature, but nothing groundbreaking.

Grade: B

10. Two Theatrical Trailers. The US, and the International trailer. They differ only in what's played in the middle. In the US version, there's a montage of action sequences. In the International version, there's not. The International version is a few seconds shorter than the US version because of this.

Grade: B

11. Four TV Spots. Man, we've come a long way since '85. The TV spots are pretty dry, and not very intriguing. They really don't do the film justice. Neither did the trailers, but still. This movie has had to rely on time to gain in popularity and acceptance. It wasn't met with great box office success ... these spots, and the trailers maybe aren't the sole reason for this, but they certainly didn't help with getting people pumped to see this movie. Or maybe they did back then. I don't really remember a whole lot of trailers from those days ... movies I remember, trailers ... uh uh.

Grade: B

12. Production Notes. Some basic text outlining the pre production, and production stages of Legend. No audio still, but they are accompanied by still captures from the film. Fairly well done, but it's mostly the same stuff you get in video / audio form in "Creating A Myth: The Making of Legend."

Grade: A

13. Cast & Filmmaker Bios. Pretty straightforward stuff here. Though an interesting side note ... in Mia Sara's bio, it lists her as being 17 in her motion picture debut with Legend ... however, in "Creating A Myth: The Making of Legend" she keeps mentioning that she was 15 during the filming in '84. Just like a woman! Always lying about her age. (Hate mail: here)

Grade: A

14. DVD-ROM: Script-To-Scene Comparison. I really need to get a DVD-ROM in my computer. I've got a lot of DVD's that have DVD-ROM exclusive stuff, and I can never watch it. Don't know what to tell ya with this one. Overall the DVD presentation is well done, so I wouldn't imagine this would deviate too far from that path.

Grade: ??

Overall, I was impressed with the presentation of the DVD's and though some of the extras left a little to be desired, I still have to say it was well put together. My only wish would be to have a 3rd DVD included in this set, with a final cut of the movie that combined elements of the International / Director's Cut, and elements of the US Theatrical version. The 3rd disc would contain the one film, and two audio channels, one containing the Jerry Goldsmith score, and one containing the Tangerine Dream score, and you could switch between the audio channels to listen to whichever score you prefer. Maybe even a 3rd channel that mixes the two scores together, as some scenes work better with Jerry Goldsmiths score, and some with Tangerine Dream's score.